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EITHER WE BUILD IT EXCEPTIONAL, OR WE DON'T!

AI Engineering Company in New Zealand

We engineer production AI systems for New Zealand's businesses: evaluated, monitored and cost-controlled, built by the team behind an OpenAI Select Partner practice.

  • 150+ products delivered
  • Senior-only engineering
  • Delivered from Sydney

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Tell us what you want to build. You'll hear back from a senior engineer, not a sales script.

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Your idea is protected. NDA available on request.

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AI ENGINEERING ACROSS NEW ZEALAND

From prototype to production. That is the hard part.

New Zealand rewards partners who build small, ship often and respect the Privacy Act, with a market tight enough that reputation travels fast. We've spent 10+ years building AI systems that are ready for real users, real load and real revenue from day one — and this is what working with an AI engineering company across New Zealand that owns the outcome looks like.

te reo Māori and English from day one

Localisation, formats and currency handled properly, so the AI system feels local rather than translated.

Secure by architecture

Data privacy and security designed in, aligned with Privacy Act 2020 and New Zealand Information Security Manual (NZISM).

Use cases, then models

We start with the decision you want improved and work backwards to the technology.

Evaluated, not vibes

Every model ships with an eval suite, so quality is a number you can watch over time.

Your data stays yours

Private deployments, retention controls and prompt-level data governance.

Cost under control

Routing, caching and smaller models where they work, so unit economics stay sane.

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WHAT WE BUILD

AI Engineering Services across New Zealand. Data, models, platform.

From a first prototype to an enterprise rollout. One senior team, accountable end to end.

SELECTED WORK

AI systems we've shipped. Results we can point to.

Real products, designed and engineered by Creuto end to end.

IoT Smart City Platform for Binimise
/01 · Smart City / IoT

IoT Smart City Platform for Binimise

A cloud-native, IoT-powered smart city platform — web command dashboard, citizen mobile app, field staff app, and full IoT integration designed and delivered by Creuto from the ground up.

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Integrated Modules

25–30%

Reduction in Vehicle Trips

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Platforms Delivered

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Smart Aquaculture Forecasting & Bidding Ecosystem
/02 · AgriTech / IoT

Smart Aquaculture Forecasting & Bidding Ecosystem

A full-stack pond-to-port aquaculture ecosystem — AI monitoring, disease prediction, supply chain linkage, and export readiness — designed and delivered by Creuto from scratch.

6,000+

Farmers Registered

8,000+

Acres Monitored

150+

Villages Covered

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Enterprise Workflow Automation & Process Management Platform
/03 · Operations / Workflow

Enterprise Workflow Automation & Process Management Platform

A full-stack workflow management platform — admin panel, task boards, collaboration engine, and reporting suite — designed and delivered by Creuto from the ground up.

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Source of Truth for All Work

100%

Task Audit Trail

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Task Lifecycle States

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AI-Powered CRM & Sales Engagement Platform
/04 · Sales / CRM

AI-Powered CRM & Sales Engagement Platform

A complete Before-Sales and After-Sales CRM platform — AI-powered market insights, Kanban pipeline management, complaint tracking, and role-based dashboards built and delivered by Creuto end to end.

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CRM Modules (Before & After)

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Market Intelligence Engine

360°

Customer Lifecycle Coverage

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Edverise — AI-Native Software Company Discovery Platform
/05 · AI / B2B Marketplace

Edverise — AI-Native Software Company Discovery Platform

An AI-native platform for software company discovery and verified reputation — engineered end to end by Creuto with Claude and OpenAI.

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Listings Seeded Before Launch

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Independent Ownership-Verification Paths

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AI Providers in Production

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Custom Cloud ERP for Large-Scale Industrial Operations
/06 · Enterprise ERP

Custom Cloud ERP for Large-Scale Industrial Operations

A fully custom, browser-based ERP system built to unify every department, eliminate silos, and scale with the business — designed and delivered by Creuto end to end.

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Departments Unified

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Source of Truth

100%

Browser-Based Access

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TESTIMONIALS

Don't Take Our Word for It

Founders and product leaders on what it's like to build with Creuto.

“Honestly, we had a smooth experience working with Creuto.”

Creuto's system improved the client's donation management efficiency, reduced manual tracking, provided real-time fundraising insights, and decreased donor drop-offs. The team was supportive, communicative, and easy to work with. The team cared about building something meaningful for the client.

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Fundraising Manager, NEEDS NGO

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INDUSTRIES

We know your industry. We've probably shipped in it.

AI Engineering shaped around how business actually runs across New Zealand: regulated, localised and built to scale.

Patient-first products that respect clinical and privacy rules.

  • Telemedicine & appointments
  • Privacy-by-design data handling
  • Clinical system integrations

Learning products for schools, universities and training providers.

  • LMS & virtual classrooms
  • Assessments & certification
  • Parent, student & teacher apps

Secure financial products for a digital-first market.

  • Wallets, payments & lending
  • KYC, AML & PCI-DSS aligned
  • Bank-grade encryption

Visibility from warehouse to last mile.

  • Live fleet tracking
  • Driver apps & proof of delivery
  • Warehouse workflows

Shopping experiences tuned for conversion.

  • Checkout built for speed
  • Local gateways & wallets
  • Personalised merchandising

Booking and guest experiences for visitors to New Zealand.

  • Search, booking & itineraries
  • Multi-currency, multi-language
  • In-stay guest services

Property discovery and management for a fast-moving market.

  • Listings & virtual tours
  • Tenant, owner & broker portals
  • CRM & payment integrations

Accessible, secure citizen services at scale.

  • Citizen service platforms
  • Accessibility & language standards
  • Data residency by design

Ordering and loyalty that bring customers back.

  • Ordering & delivery tracking
  • Loyalty & personalised offers
  • POS & kitchen integrations

Real-time service products for an always-on economy.

  • Live booking, tracking & payments
  • Dispatch & supply balancing
  • Built for peak-hour load

Digital tools for dealerships, suppliers and mobility brands.

  • Sales training & service booking
  • Connected-vehicle integrations
  • Dealer & supplier portals

Venues, vendors and guests on one platform.

  • Venue & vendor marketplaces
  • Real-time availability
  • Ticketing & check-in
COMPLIANCE

Compliance isn't a checkbox. It's in the architecture.

For enterprise and government-grade AI engineering across New Zealand, we design, build and document your AI system around the regulations and standards that apply to you.

New Zealand Regulations

  • Privacy Act 2020
  • New Zealand Information Security Manual (NZISM)
  • Digital Identity Services Trust Framework
  • Reserve Bank of New Zealand technology expectations
  • NZ Government Web Accessibility Standard

International Standards

  • GDPR
  • ISO 27001 practices
  • SOC 2 readiness
  • WCAG 2.2 Accessibility
  • OWASP ASVS

AI-Specific Governance

  • EU AI Act risk classification
  • NIST AI Risk Management Framework
  • ISO/IEC 42001 AI management practices
  • Model and dataset documentation
  • Bias, safety and red-team testing

Industry-Specific

  • PCI-DSS for payments
  • KYC & AML for FinTech
  • HIPAA & HL7 / FHIR for health
  • COPPA for children's products

Technical Security

  • End-to-end encryption
  • OAuth 2.0 & OpenID Connect
  • Penetration testing (VAPT)
  • Role-based access & audit logs
THE CREUTO DIFFERENCE

Why New Zealand Businesses Choose CREUTO

Not every AI engineering company across New Zealand will tell you no. We will, when it protects your product.

Either we build it exceptional, or we don't.

The standard every Creuto product is held to

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    Proven Delivery

    150+ products across 35+ industries. 99% client satisfaction. We're trusted with the complex stuff.

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    Tier-1 Engineering Talent

    Your product is built exclusively by senior practitioners. No juniors learning on your budget.

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    Local Insight, Global Standards

    Regional languages, payments and data law, delivered with world-class engineering.

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    Security First

    Threat modelling, secure coding, encrypted data and independent testing before every major release.

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    Practical, ROI-Driven AI

    AI is used purposefully, where it actually improves performance, efficiency or experience.

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    On-Time Delivery Discipline

    Structured sprints, weekly updates, zero excuses. We deliver what we promise, when we promise it.

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REGIONAL EXPERTISE

Built for New Zealand. Not just translated for it.

Great AI systems here take more than good code. They take an understanding of how the market works.

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    Local regulations, handled

    Your AI system is designed, built and documented against the rules that actually apply here: Privacy Act 2020, New Zealand Information Security Manual (NZISM) and Digital Identity Services Trust Framework, plus the sector requirements specific to you.

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    te reo Māori-first where it counts

    Language, formats and content structure are planned at design time rather than retrofitted after launch.

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    Aligned to your working day

    Our Sydney studio runs overlapping hours with NZST (UTC+12), so reviews, standups and decisions happen inside your day.

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    The payments your users trust

    We integrate Windcave, Stripe and Afterpay and the other methods your customers already use.

CREUTO.AI

An OpenAI Select Partner. Held to that standard.

Creuto.ai is our dedicated AI engineering practice: evaluation-led, security-reviewed and accountable for the numbers it moves.

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  • AI Strategy & Use-Case Scoring
  • Generative AI Products
  • AI Agents & Copilots
  • Predictive Modelling
  • MLOps & LLMOps
  • AI Governance
OUR AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS

Our Awards & Recognitions

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TECHNOLOGIES

Advanced tech. Used with purpose.

The technologies powering our AI engineering services across New Zealand.

Large Language Models

Claude, GPT and open models, chosen per task and cost profile.

Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Answers grounded in your documents, with citations.

Machine Learning

Forecasting, scoring and recommendation models on your data.

Computer Vision

Document parsing, inspection and identity verification.

Agentic Workflows

Tool-using agents that complete multi-step work safely.

Vector & Feature Stores

The retrieval layer that makes AI answers accurate.

MLOps & LLMOps

Versioning, evaluation, monitoring and retraining pipelines.

Private Cloud AI

Deployments inside your own cloud or region for data control.

AI Security

Prompt-injection defence, PII redaction and access control.

Evaluation Harnesses

Automated scoring so quality changes are visible, not guessed.

TECH STACK

The right stack. Never the trendy one.

We pick technology for your product. Never the other way round.

/01Models

  • Claude
  • GPT
  • Gemini
  • Llama
  • Mistral
  • Whisper
  • Embedding models

/02AI Frameworks

  • LangGraph
  • LlamaIndex
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • scikit-learn
  • Hugging Face

/03Vector & Data

  • pgvector
  • Pinecone
  • Qdrant
  • Weaviate
  • Snowflake
  • BigQuery
  • dbt

/04Serving

  • FastAPI
  • Node.js
  • vLLM
  • Bedrock
  • Vertex AI
  • Azure OpenAI

/05Cloud & DevOps

  • AWS
  • Google Cloud
  • Azure
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform

/06Evaluation & Observability

  • Custom eval suites
  • LangSmith
  • Phoenix
  • OpenTelemetry
  • Grafana

/07Governance

  • PII redaction
  • Audit logging
  • Prompt versioning
  • Access policies

/08APIs & Testing

  • REST
  • GraphQL
  • Apollo
  • Postman
  • Swagger
  • Jest
  • Cypress
  • Selenium

/09Design & Prototyping

  • Figma
  • Adobe XD
  • Sketch
  • Framer
  • Storybook
HOW WE WORK

From idea to launch. No surprises.

Success isn't how fast something gets built. It's how safely and sustainably it runs at scale. Our process is built for that.

Start Your Project
  1. 01

    Use-Case Qualification

    We score candidate use cases on value, data readiness and risk, and tell you which ones are not worth building.

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    Data & Feasibility Review

    We audit the data you actually have, then prove or disprove the approach on a slice of it.

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    Evaluation Harness First

    Before tuning anything we build the test set that defines 'good', so progress is measurable.

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    Build & Iterate

    Retrieval, prompts, models and guardrails tuned against the eval suite rather than anecdotes.

  5. 05

    Production Hardening

    Latency budgets, cost controls, fallbacks, abuse protection and human-in-the-loop review paths.

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    Monitor & Improve

    Drift, quality and cost tracked in production, with retraining and prompt updates on a schedule.

HOW WE WORK WITH YOU

Delivered from Sydney. Built for New Zealand.

Your team sits in our Sydney Startup Hub studio on hours that overlap NZST (UTC+12), with a named engineering lead, written weekly updates and a shared backlog you can see at any time.

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Request a Proposal

Scope, team, timeline and budget, tailored to your product.

What's your budget range?

Your idea is protected. NDA available on request.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Straight answers. If yours isn't here, ask us directly.

Ask Our Dubai Team

One team owns the whole journey: discovery and planning, UI/UX design, engineering, QA, launch and post-launch support. You get a single point of accountability from the first workshop to long after go-live, not a handoff between departments.

Security is built in from day one. We apply secure coding practices, encrypt data in transit and at rest, use role-based access control and run vulnerability assessment and penetration testing before major releases. Architecture is designed to align with Privacy Act 2020 and New Zealand Information Security Manual (NZISM) and GDPR where it applies.

It depends on scope: feature complexity, integrations, design depth and compliance needs. After a free discovery call we send a fixed-scope proposal with a clear budget breakdown, milestones and timeline, quoted in NZD or your preferred currency. No surprises later.

A focused first phase typically takes 6 to 10 weeks. A complete engagement usually runs 3 to 7 months, and complex multi-team programmes can take longer. You get a milestone-based timeline before work begins.

Yes. We design data flows, consent, storage and access controls to align with Privacy Act 2020, New Zealand Information Security Manual (NZISM) and Digital Identity Services Trust Framework, plus sector rules such as PCI-DSS where they apply. Where data residency is required we host in a region that satisfies it.

Share your requirements through the form on this page or book a free discovery call. We sign an NDA, run a short discovery session, and send a tailored proposal covering scope, team, timeline and budget. Once approved, your team starts within days.

Yes, and it is how most of our New Zealand work is delivered. Your team sits in our Sydney studio with working hours overlapping NZST (UTC+12), with written weekly updates, a shared backlog and a named engineering lead you speak to directly. We travel for discovery and major milestones where it helps.

AI development is building the model or feature. AI engineering is everything that makes it dependable in production: data pipelines, evaluation, monitoring, cost control, security and the platform it runs on. Most AI projects stall between a working demo and a reliable product, and that gap is what AI engineering closes.

Yes, and it is one of our most common engagements. We build an evaluation suite around the prototype, harden it with guardrails and fallbacks, set latency and cost budgets, and deploy with monitoring so quality is tracked after launch.

Yes. We deploy within your cloud account or on-premise, using open models or private endpoints, with data residency, retention and access controls agreed in writing beforehand.

LET'S BUILD

Your idea deserves an exceptional build.

Tell us what you're building. You'll speak with a senior engineer, get honest advice, and leave with a clear plan for your AI system across New Zealand.

  • Free, no-obligation consultation
  • NDA available on request
  • Fixed-scope proposal

We don't just aim to fit in – we strive to stand out. Experience the perfect blend of innovation, excellence, and trust that makes us truly unforgettable. Discover the difference with Creuto.

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